February 2, Feb 3

February 2

1494		Columbus begins the practice using Indians as slaves.
1571		All eight members of a Jesuit mission in Virginia are murdered by Indians who pretended to be their friends.
		feb 3 1962 President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba.
1901		Mexican government troops are badly beaten by Yaqui Indians.
1921		Airmail service opens between New York and San Francisco. Airmail’s First Day.
Born on February 2
1754		Charles Maurice de Tallyrand-Perigord, minister of foreign affairs for Napoleon I, who represented France brilliantly at the Congress of Vienna.
1882		James Joyce, Irish novelist and poet (Ulysses, Portrait of a Young Man).
		Born on February 3 1809 Felix Mendelssohn, German composer and pianist (Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream). 1811 Horace Greely, founder of the New York Tribune and abolitionist. 1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman to get an MD from a U.S. medical school. 1874 Gertrude Stein, poet and novelist (Three Lives, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas). 1894 Norman Rockwell, artist and illustrator who painted scenes of small-town America. Most of his work appeared in the The Saturday Evening Post. 1898 Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect. 1907 James A. Michener, novelist (Tales of the South Pacific). 1909 Simone Weil, philosopher, member of the French resistance in WWII.